* Say: "I am as God created me. His Son can suffer nothing. And I am His
Son."

* With this firmly in mind, try to discover the Self Who is the Christ in you.
Deep in your mind He waits for you to acknowledge Him as your Self. Seek Him
and find Him. Let go your false images of who you are and open your mind to
Him. When you find Him you will discover just how false your images were.

Shorter: as often as you can

Repeat idea. Remind yourself of the Christ in you. Remember God with gratitude
and with loving thoughts toward all you meet.

Remarks: Practice with gratitude, for this idea is the key that opens
the gate of Heaven. It is the great restorer of the truth, the birthplace of
all miracles.

This one thought, we are told, is enough to save not only ourselves, but the
world, if we believed it to be true.

"Its truth would mean that you Have made no changes in yourself that have
reality, nor changed the universe so that what God created was replaced by fear
and evil, misery and death" (1:3).

This is the primary meaning of this idea for me: nothing I have done has
changed anything. Ego thoughts have done nothing, changed nothing. Fear and
evil, misery and death have not occurred. I remain as God created me. I have
not damaged anything. The tiny, mad idea to replace God on His throne
accomplished absolutely nothing. I am still perfect, innocent, golden love.

"It is enough to let time be the means for all the world to learn escape from
time, and every change that time appears to bring in passing by" (2:4).

We tend to see the ravages of time. We see the aging body. We see loved ones
come and go. We see decay and death and loss. But time can be the means by
which we learn escape from time and all its changes. We learn through time to
look beyond the appearances of change to what is unchanging, and we come to
learn that only that is real. "Lead me in the way everlasting" (Psalm
139:24).

"If you are as God created you, then there has been no separation of your mind
from His, no split between your mind and other minds, and only unity within
your own" (4:2).

No separation, no split, no schizophrenia. I am one Self, united with my
Creator, and limitless in power and in love. I can trust my brothers, who are
one with me, because I am as God created me and have never split from them.
What I find within myself when I listen to the Spirit's quiet voice is what all
others are as well. I find within myself the Holy One. I am This; you are This.
Let me simply become aware of any thought that says anything different, any
picture of myself that creates a false and limited idol, and just drop that
thought.

"Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as
you. And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and
unknown" (9:4-5).